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Raisin in the Sun Vocabulary Flashcards

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Undistinguished

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(adj) common; nothing special

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Pretense

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(n) pretending or feigning; make-believe; a false show of something

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Exasperated

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(adj) irritated; provoked; irked

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Viciously

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(adv) with violence or fury

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Sullen

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(adj) showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve

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Vindicated

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(v) cleared of accusation, blame, or doubt

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Proposition

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(n) a suggested plan

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Vengeance

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(n) revenge

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Tentatively

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(adv) uncertainly

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Furtively

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(adv) stealthily; in a way that hides motive

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Futile

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(adj) useless

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Tyrant

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(n) dictator; harsh ruler

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Forlornly

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(adv) pitifully; desperately; hopelessly

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Mutilated

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(adj) maimed; damaged

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Assimilationism

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(n) belief that minority cultures should be absorbed into a dominant culture

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Insinuatingly

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(adv) with more meaning than is spoken; implied

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Haphazardly

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(adv) carelessly

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Arrogant

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(adj) proud; haughty

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Eccentric

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(adj) deviating from the norm; strange

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Oppressive

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(adj) tyrannical

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Cliche

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(n) trite or overused expression or idea

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Plaintively

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(adv) sorrowfully; pathetically

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Menacingly

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(adv) threateningly

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Exuberant

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(adj) marked by unrestrained enthusiasm

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Presumably

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(adv) probably; reasonably supposed

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Amiably

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(adv) good-naturedly

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Ludicrous

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(adj) ridiculous

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Ominous

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(adj) menacing; threatening

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Plunder

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(v) to rob; to loot

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Wrought

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(v) shaped; made

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Monologue

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(n) long speech by one person

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Eccentricity

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(n) quality of being strange or unusual in behavior

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Epitaph

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(n) inscription on a tombstone

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Amid

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(adv) among; in the midst of

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